Why The White House Won’t

In what way, one can’t help but wonder, must the White House honor God in order to make this meme’s author happy? I conducted a Google-quest to find peoples’ opinions on what it means to honor God. While there was some diversity in opinion, most people held that to honor God, you should live your life devoted to Him. (One author claimed that “honoring God” entailed living a life of sexual purity. If that’s the case, the White House lost it’s connection to God a long time ago.)

That’s all fine, but at this point I must voice a protest against the message of this meme: While I think it’s fine for a President to honor God, the White House definitely should not. The President is a person, but the White House is an institution – a symbolic representation of the power of the leader of the executive branch. As the sole seat of executive…